OT: Does Quark have a book feature?

Question

I have to export (or print?) close to a thousand Quark documents to PDF.
It's about 30 books split to 20-30 documents. Does Quark have a book
feature or something that would allow me to export whole books at once?

Answer 1

Yes, I wouldn't suggest using GREP styles to set up huge kerning tables, but let me give you a couple of examples. The first isn't actually a pair, but my client likes to have some air around em-dashes. So, I have set up a character style named Tracking75 and a GREP style that does this:
Apply Style: Tracking75
To Text: .~_
This actually applies +75 tracking to any character that is followed by an em-dash and the em-dash that follows it, thereby giving the em-dash some air.
I also have a CustomKernPair'" character style that I use to add 50 units of tracking to the pair :
ApplyStyle: CustomKernPair
to Text: ~](?=~})
In this case, the tracking is applied to just the single right quote when it is followed by a double right quote because of the use of the positive lookahead to locate the second character.
This could be extended as far as you like, but it would quickly get unwieldy if you tried to apply it to more than a handful of pairs; there's also a potential performance issue if you go crazy. And there's no method (other than Based-on inheritance) to quickly get a bunch of these out of one style into another -- but a script could help with that.
Dave